Suspending device.



N70. 729,836. f PATBNTBD JUNE 2, 1903.

o. A. BBNKE.

SUSPBNDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION PILED MAB.. 2, 1903.

NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 2, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. BENKE, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF FOUR-FIFTHS TO GEORGE KOCH, LOUIS V. RAULET, FREDERICK J. NICKOLSON, AND GEORGE S. ROYAL, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

SUSPEN'DING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 729,836, dated .I une 2, 1903.

Application filed March 2. 1903.

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BENKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Suspending Device for Pamphlets and other Bound and Unbound Leaves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in 1o suspending devices; and its object is to provide a device which can easily and rapidly be inserted in the hole punched through the corner of books and pamphlets and is of such a character that it can be folded down beside l5 the leaves and have no part projecting beyond their edge. I attain this object by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is an enlarged view of the device,

zo and Fig. 2 is a view of the device attached to a pamphlet and the way the Weight of lthe pamphlet will cause the shank of the device to bend.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the views.

I prefer to make the device of spring-wire. The eye l is bent at one end of the shank 2. The cross-bar 3 is formed at the other end and is held locked by a part of the loop 4 bef 3o ing pinched down hard. When the device is to be used, the cross-bar is sprung until it is parallel to the shank and then passed through the hole in the book, pamphlet, or

Serial No. 145,746. (No model.)

leaves, as shown in Fig. 2.- When a number of such books are to be packed, the device is turned to lie in the dotted position of Fig. 2, when nospace is Wasted by the projections of the suspending device.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

I. A suspending device, comprising a shank, a,loop bent on one end of the shank integral with the same, a cross-bar bent on the other end integral with the shank, said shank at the junction with the cross-bar being bent around the same.

\ 2. In a suspending device, the crossbar comprising a straight part, a second part bent back on the straight part one-half its length and then bent around the same forming a lock, a shank, and a loop at the other end of the shank.

3. A suspending device of spring-wire com .prising a loop, a shank, and a cross-bar, said shank attached to said cross-bar at its middle point and Wound around the same forming a rigid connection, the flexibility of the wire permitting the cross-bar to be bent parallel 

